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The Official Biography for Jennie Goutet
Jennie Goutet is the best-selling author of twelve Regency romances, including the Clavering Chronicles, Memorable Proposals, and Daughters of the Gentry series. Her books have received first place in historical romance for the New England Reader’s Choice Awards and have hit the number one spot in Regency Romance on Amazon. They have been featured on BookBub and Hoopla, and are translated into five languages.
Jennie is an American-born Anglophile who lives with her French husband and their three children in a small town outside of Paris. Her imagination resides in Regency England, where her best-selling proper Regency romances are set. You can learn more about Jennie’s books and sign up for her newsletter on her author website: jenniegoutet.com or purchase her books at jenniegoutetbooks.com.
And the story behind it all
After spending twenty years visiting and living in various countries, I finally settled in France and began writing about it on my blog, A Lady in France.
At first I wrote about life and construction in my small house just outside of Paris. I wrote about my three young children, the French dishes I was cooking, the garden I was trying to tame. And then, bits and pieces of my past started appearing on the blog – living and traveling around Asia, my life as a single woman in Manhattan, the humanitarian work my husband and I were involved in while living in Somaliland, Kenya and Djibouti.
Going beyond blogging into writing a memoir was a direct result of suffering a second-term miscarriage. Suddenly there was a reason to write an entire book. A theme started to emerge, and it was the threads of grief, joy, and faith that were woven tightly into my life throughout the years. The first draft was finished the same month my baby would have been due.
Once I had published that book, the desire to continue writing longer works bit. A fan of the Regency period, I wrote a fictional romance, set in modern times, but with a soupçon of the Regency style. A Noble Affair (initially titled, The Viscount of Maisons-Laffitte) appeared on my blog in a series of one chapter per week in an effort to put any doubts to rest (my own) that I could complete such a project. With that accomplished, I began the first in a series of novels properly set in the Regency period – 1812, to be exact. A Regrettable Proposal was published by Cedar Fort on March 12, 2019, and its sequel, A Faithful Proposal came out a year later. Since traditionally-published books take awhile, I squeezed out a new contemporary romance, A Sweetheart in Paris, and have two additional Regencies I plan to self-publish this year.
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Thank you so much for reading.
Jennie
et en français …
Jennie Goutet est l’auteur du rĂ©cit de souvenirs primĂ©, Stars Upside Down (Un ocĂ©an d’Ă©toiles), ainsi que des romans A Regrettable Proposal — une saga situĂ©e Ă l’époque de la RĂ©gence anglaise — A Sweetheart in Paris et A Noble Affair. Ayant vĂ©cu en Asie, en Afrique, en Europe et Ă Manhattan, Jennie distille ces diverses influences culturelles au travers de ses histoires. ChrĂ©tienne, fĂ©rue de lettres classiques et de cuisine, elle vit dans une petite ville de l’ouest parisien avec son mari et ses trois enfants, et partage ses passions et ses maladresses lĂ©gendaires sur son blog, aladyinfrance.com. Plus d’informations sur l’auteur et ses publications sur le site jenniegoutet.com.
